But since Ching didn't ask for the translation of the tooltip text Browse Happy — Online. Worry-free., I have a hard time doing that. (I only know English and Chinese) So now I've made some ugly machine translation here. Please help me to correct them: :-) (Deleted ones are checked: see comments)

Wednesday, November 17, 2004

After the return of mummy, the mummy mutates! Oh my god... AOL is now beta testing a Netscape branded browser based on Firefox! To join the beta testing team, simply login the registeration page with your AOL screen name, then enter the code prototype1104.

Though I'm not especially exciting about this news, I've joined as I had created the screen name long long time ago when Netscape told me to register for Netscape Mail. Let's hope that it will be Netscape 7.3 instead of Netscape 8... :-P

Tuesday, November 09, 2004

It's no surprise that Firefox has been a big hit among bloggers: the browser is free, small, fast, open-source, standards-compliant, supported by a large community, and nicely optimized for RSS discovery.

With the 1.0 release today, we think it is really going to take off, and that's why we're announcing the Bloglines
Firefox Center today.

Over the past few months, we've watched users steadily switch away from Netscape and Internet Explorer to Firefox. Back in July, while Firefox was still in beta, it had grown to over 5% of our traffic. Today, Firefox represents 20% of requests to Bloglines.

Perhaps the most exciting aspect of Firefox is its ease of extensibility. We regularly hear from developers writing programs on top of the Bloglines Web Services and Notifier APIs, but the Firefox extensions are some of the best and should really help regular consumers use RSS. To learn more, visit our Firefox Center and grab a copy of the browser and all the latest extensions.

Firefox 1.0 was just released a few hours ago. Because of the heavy traffic, I cannot access the release note yet. So I can't tell what the new changes are. But from what I observed, there is no obvious change from 1.0RC2.

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An ordinary Hong Kong young man, graduated in computer science at City University of Hong Kong in 2005, who likes surfing, blogging and watching anime/manga. An evangelist of web standards, non-toy Databases, Mozilla, Google, Gmail, and Blogger.